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I started intermittent fasting in September and I thought I would do it only to lose my corona weight gains. But by now it's a lifestyle for me that has so many

I started intermittent fasting in September and I thought I would do it only to lose my corona weight gains. But by now it's a lifestyle for me that has so many benefits. To be fair, breakfast was never that important to me. I typically start the day with a few cups of coffee with milk and going to black coffee without milk was and is funnily the biggest price I have to pay. To cut the junk food after 8pm has so many positive effects on my overall wellbeing - and let's face it, it is always bad food we eat at night, nobody ever comes up at 10:30pm "hey look at that nice apple." I'll turn 47 next week and I have an almost perfect BMI again - something I hadn't had for almost ten years of so. And I still eat too much cake and chocolate in the afternoon and don't really starve overall. The only thing I can't get used too is the black coffee in the morning but that's a small price to pay. Intermetting fasting is not a diet, it's a lifestyle and that's why it works so well. So overall I can just recommend it.

reflexco 5y ago
Coffee on an empty stomach is quite hard on the stomach. One thing I learned recently is that gut damage from unhealthy eating habits can accumulate over long periods of times, and symptoms manifest decades after. So if you notice any uncomfortable feeling from this habit (the all too common coffee diarrhea for example), it wouldn't be a bad idea to skip the morning coffee or at the very least prepare your gut with some food and water first.
nicoburns 5y ago
> and let's face it, it is always bad food we eat at night, nobody ever comes up at 22:30pm "hey look at that nice apple." You're probably right in general, but I grew up in a house with no "bad foods" available (we were allowed them occasionally, but they weren't kept in stock in the house). So fruit and rice cakes or maybe raisins were the late-night snack options. And while I'm definitely not as strict about this now, I will still quite often pick an apple or celery/carrot sticks as a snack.

reflexco 5y ago

Coffee on an empty stomach is quite hard on the stomach. One thing I learned recently is that gut damage from unhealthy eating habits can accumulate over long periods of times, and symptoms manifest decades after. So if you notice any uncomfortable feeling from this habit (the all too common coffee diarrhea for example), it wouldn't be a bad idea to skip the morning coffee or at the very least prepare your gut with some food and water first.

nicoburns 5y ago

> and let's face it, it is always bad food we eat at night, nobody ever comes up at 22:30pm "hey look at that nice apple." You're probably right in general, but I grew up in a house with no "bad foods" available (we were allowed them occasionally, but they weren't kept in stock in the house). So fruit and rice cakes or maybe raisins were the late-night snack options. And while I'm definitely not as strict about this now, I will still quite often pick an apple or celery/carrot sticks as a snack.